Posted on 12/12/2019 5:30:33 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME - In his continual effort to quell worldwide conflicts, Pope Francis Thursday chastised world leaders for lacking the will to make change, and also insisted true peace implies an “ecological conversion” or it won’t work.
In an annual message for the World Day of Peace, which is celebrated on Jan. 1, the pope implied that violence toward humanity and violence toward the planet go hand in hand.
“If a mistaken understanding of our own principles has at times led us to justify mistreating nature, to exercise tyranny over creation, to engage in war, injustice and acts of violence, we believers should acknowledge that by so doing we were not faithful to the treasures of wisdom which we have been called to protect and preserve,” he said.
Francis argued that the world is in need of “an ecological conversion” due both to the consequences of hostility toward one another and a lack of respect for the environment, often “seen only as a source of immediate profit, regardless of local communities, the common good and nature itself.”
He praised the recent October Synod of Bishops on the Amazon for the efforts it made to foster peace among communities and with the land. Each person, he said, is called to work for a better planet for future generations with responsibility for those at every level of society.
“All this gives us deeper motivation and a new way to dwell in our common home, to accept our differences, to respect and celebrate the life that we have received and share,” Francis said, adding that the ecological conversion he is calling for “will lead us to a new way of looking at life.”
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Pope needs to get back down to S. America and straiten stuff out then.
Guy’s a Marxist. Enough said.
Cardinal Kasper says Bergoglio feels a calling to “change the Church” … a calling from satan himself!
Shade of green, Greenbacks?
Watermelon Pope
Ping
I told you this Pope is an atheist, but that means the Cardinals who voted him in didn’t care or are “Fellow Travelers” ...
But I'm not going to hold my breath.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.”
I don’t see a color shade required. Peace in any color is good.
Green is the color of Islam.
Shut up, Francis, you whore.
It’s been a long time since I heard someone use the “mistranslated” excuse.
Pod people Communists?
Pope smokes dope?
Everything is so greeeeen!
I wonder if the Pope is firing on all cylinders.
Pope Soros.
“Pope Says That Peace Comes in a Shade of Green, or Not at All”.
Dear Pope. That green would be Olive Drab.
“Is the Pope Catholic?” is no longer a rhetorical question.
The pope and the cardinals are all a bunch of left-wing homosexuals. Pitiful.
The watermelon “pope”.
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